THE SEARCH LEDGER · TAMPA-ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA · ENTERTAINMENT
Every month Tampa-St. Petersburg types 453,900 entertainment searches into Google. This is the public record of what those searches are, what they cost, and who currently answers them.
Relative search interest by month, indexed 0–100. The pink outline marks the peak. Interest runs highest in APR and lowest in SEP.
SRC: Google Trends relative interest for the Entertainment category in Tampa-St. Petersburg — a 0–100 index, not a search count. One curve per category is the granularity available; it is not split per keyword.
The 20 highest-volume of 289 tracked keywords, priced at what advertisers actually bid. The dearest click here is “monster jam tickets tampa” at $4.64.
| # | KEYWORD | VOL/MO | CPC | DIFFICULTY | INTENT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seminole hard rock hotel & casino tampa | 110,000 | $1.12 | 16 | commercial |
| 2 | lightning tickets | 90,500 | $3.90 | informational | |
| 3 | rays tickets | 60,500 | $2.81 | informational | |
| 4 | tampa busch gardens tickets | 40,500 | $0.89 | informational | |
| 5 | tampa concerts | 9,900 | $0.32 | informational | |
| 6 | side splitters comedy club tampa | 9,900 | $1.94 | branded | |
| 7 | tampa events today | 6,600 | $0.84 | informational | |
| 8 | hard casino tampa | 6,600 | $1.10 | commercial | |
| 9 | tampa casino | 5,400 | $2.93 | 12 | commercial |
| 10 | tampa events | 5,400 | $1.04 | informational | |
| 11 | lowry park zoo tickets | 5,400 | $1.20 | 7 | commercial |
| 12 | tampa events this weekend | 5,400 | $1.33 | informational | |
| 13 | tampa bay area renaissance festival | 5,400 | — | branded | |
| 14 | bucs tickets | 5,400 | $3.26 | informational | |
| 15 | show bar ybor | 4,400 | $0.16 | 0 | commercial |
| 16 | monster jam tickets tampa | 3,600 | $4.64 | informational | |
| 17 | adventure island tampa tickets | 3,600 | $0.88 | informational | |
| 18 | zootampa at lowry park tickets | 3,600 | $1.83 | 8 | commercial |
| 19 | palm pavilion clearwater beach | 2,900 | $1.79 | branded | |
| 20 | concerts in tampa tonight | 2,900 | $0.31 | branded |
SRC: DataForSEO, Tampa-St. Petersburg metro, Sep 8, 2026. Volume and CPC are Google Ads twelve-month averages, so neither moves week to week. Difficulty is DataForSEO’s 0–100 score; blank where it has not been scored.
Live position tracking for 3 of the tracked keywords in this vertical — who Google puts in the map pack, and who holds page one.
SRC: DataForSEO, Tampa-St. Petersburg metro, Sep 8, 2026. LOCAL marks an organic domain that matches a business tracked in this metro; an unmarked domain is simply not one of them, which includes directories and firms we do not track.
The 12 most-reviewed businesses we track in this vertical, with the profile signals that put them where they are.
| RANK | BUSINESS | RATING | REVIEWS | CATEGORY | WEBSITE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa | 4.3 ★ | 59,313 | Casino | YES |
| #2 | The Florida Aquarium | 4.5 ★ | 22,029 | Aquarium | YES |
| #3 | AMC Veterans 24 | 4.5 ★ | 9,815 | Movie theater | YES |
| #4 | Straz Center for the Performing Arts | 4.7 ★ | 7,369 | Performing arts theater | YES |
| #5 | AMC Riverview 14 | 4.6 ★ | 6,765 | Movie theater | YES |
| #6 | Sugar Factory - Tampa Bay | 4.4 ★ | 5,863 | American | YES |
| #7 | Hyde Park Village | 4.7 ★ | 5,291 | Shopping mall | YES |
| #8 | AMC The Regency 20 | 4.1 ★ | 5,180 | Movie theater | YES |
| #9 | Xscape Theatres Riverview 14 | 4.5 ★ | 5,103 | Movie theater | YES |
| #10 | Centro Ybor | 4.5 ★ | 5,102 | Business center | YES |
| #11 | AMC Woodlands Square 20 | 4.4 ★ | 4,930 | Movie theater | YES |
| #12 | Hilton Tampa Downtown | 4.2 ★ | 4,817 | Hotel | YES |
SRC: Google Maps listings, DataForSEO, Tampa-St. Petersburg metro, Sep 8, 2026. Ranked by review count, which is a proxy for how established a listing is — not a ranking claim.
Branded demand is the clearest read on who has built recall here — searches for a business by name, the volume nobody has to bid for.
SRC: DataForSEO, Tampa-St. Petersburg metro, Sep 8, 2026. Brand searches identified from the tracked keyword set.
People Also Ask questions collected verbatim from Tampa-St. Petersburg entertainment results — the literal wording Google is already surfacing.
How much are Tampa Lightning tickets?
How to get cheap Lightning tickets?
Do Tampa Bay Lightning games sell out?
Where can I buy Tampa Bay Lightning tickets?
How to get discounted Rays tickets?
Why is Rays attendance so low?
How much is the new Tampa Bay Rays stadium going to cost?
Is it cheaper to get baseball tickets at the box office?
SRC: Google People Also Ask, DataForSEO, Tampa-St. Petersburg metro, Sep 8, 2026. Questions are reproduced as collected; we do not answer them here.
Everything above is the market. If you want to be in it, start with where you stand today.
Every other vertical we track in this metro, with its monthly search demand.
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HOW THIS PAGE IS MADE
Every figure is collected, not estimated. Keyword volume and cost-per-click come from Google Ads via DataForSEO and are twelve-month averages, so neither moves week to week — a weekly delta on either would measure the averaging window, not the market. Map-pack and organic positions are a live SERP read taken Sep 8, 2026. Sections with no data are omitted rather than filled.
Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida · Entertainment · 289 keywords · collected Sep 8, 2026